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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW ... harmony of brain-dead chimpanzees banging on drums. My saving grace existed ... series of increasingly worse events on a family. My cousin read it over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  when I got to MIT, I would proceed to get C’s on pretty much all of the ... socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  think of it, this is totally creepy in a Brave New World kind of way ... Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... part of the bar on top. It was challenging to use the bandsaw to cut an ... stages, removing a little bit of wood each time, working my way into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way ... . Another moral of the story: don't wear loose slippers on the stairs. A few ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  's nothing wrong with New House - plenty of great people live there. It just ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... done a great job documenting Professor Schrock's Nobel prize. On Monday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  Soooo someone asked on Sam's blog: Are you and Mitra dating? I wish ... close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... each other for a couple of months, but already we were well on our way to ... start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of ... on the way back. I loved camping. We arrived not long before sunset ... club is just starting out this year, but I knew some of the new members

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  using computer vision techniques, all of which we tackled on our psets for ... rendering of the scene? On the left: a picture of a "simple world" comprised only of simple prisms with high-contrast edges on a smooth background. On

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of a good way to spend $700."  Our top ideas are super secret, of ... abstract representation of the humps on a camel.  Which reminds me, our team ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people ... example of a good looking spreadsheet that my mentor sent to a client ... features on our development version of the client’s interface. I check over

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... power of a good walk. Step 3: Solder This is the step where you physically ... ="aligncenter" width="501"] I placed the Nano on the back of the board to optimize space

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... span of two or so days. Needless to say, it was stressful. New problems ... not do so great on the math diagnostic for a variety of reasons. I got a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  classwork and clubs. As of now, the most concrete way I plan on doing this is ... wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  school activities? If you were to cross off all of the people on your list ... additional “twelve units” on top of your course load no matter what year you ... you should expect to spend per week on some class. Of course, some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... because of the significantly higher prices. Good for a last minute gift or a ... Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  don’t get me started on how atrocious the units of measurement are here ... ="Celsius, of course"]subzero,[/annotation] tiny bits of ice form on the sidewalk ... . Crossing roads. Back at home, if you’re on one side of a major intersection

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019